Happy New Year is a 2017 Kannada-language Drama Romance movie directed by Pannaga Bharana and produced by Vanaja Patil under the banner of Soumya Films. It is an anthology film based on of five different life stories. A slice of lives of a few people all culminating on new year's eve. A radio jockey also a stand-up comedian who would make the world around him laugh their souls out, has a girlfriend bedridden with terminal disease, a constable who hates his job, an anti-social thug who hates any kind of celebration, an IT techie who thinks new year's eve is just another day and a manager of car showroom who is unhappy about his overly orthodox wife, search for something they don't have, but the new year's eve has than they can imagine. Their life changes in its own ways, finally they start their new life but the search is still on. Happy new year stars B. C. Patil, Saikumar, Vijaya Raghavendra, Dhananjay, Sudharani, B.c. Patil and Rajshri Ponnappa. The screenplay is written by Pannaga Bharana, Athi Sankar and Avinash Balekkala. The music was composed by Raghu Dixit. Cinematography was done by Shreesha Kuduvalli and editing by Deepu S Kumar. It was released on 5th May 2017. Happy New Year was made on a budget of ₹150 crore and it was a hit at box office gross of ₹178 crore.